Victory and Defeat in Theocritus' Idyll V

Giangrande, Giuseppe

doi:10.1163/156852576x00366

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La Smooth Cratidas Drives Me Frantic As He Comes1

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“…Cf. lines 120-121, in which Comatas asks the judge, gloatingly, if he has noticed how embittered Lacon is becoming, and, crucially, lines 136-137, in which, as argued by Deicke 1912, Gow 1935, Schmidt 1974, Giangrande 1976and Gutzwiller 1991 Comatas recognises a critical mistake in Lacon's reply at lines 134-135 and assumes his victory at once.…”

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Apples and Acorns: Addressing a Problem in Theocritus 5.92-95

Lenahan

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APPLES AND ACORNS: ADDRESSING A PROBLEM IN THEOCRITUS 5.92-95 H Lenahan (Rhodes University)Theocritus' Idyll 5 details an amoebaean singing contest between two herdsmen in which the goatherd, Comatas, sings an opening couplet and the shepherd, Lacon, replies with a second. This paper considers one exchange between the competitors which has been the cause of particular frustration to readers of the poem due to an obscure, and likely obscene, pastoral analogy offered by Lacon at lines 94-95. After a consideration of evidence drawn from the text, Theocritean scholia and Greek lyric and elegiac poetry, an interpretation of the exchange is offered which may provide some clarity to a much-cited problem in Idyll 5.

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“…Cf. Giangrande 1976 for an example of the belligerence the subject has evoked among certain of its interpreters. LENAHAN which concerns just four lines from Idyll 5, but which has caused critics some difficulty in its attempted solution.…”

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